This new Oriental Institute series — Late Antique and Medieval
Islamic Near East (LAMINE) — aims to publish a variety of scholarly
works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions,
translations, studies of corpora of documents — in short, any work that
offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between
roughly 200 and 1000 CE.

The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series
LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled “Christians, Jews, and
Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State,” held at the University of Chicago on
June 17–18, 2011. The goal of the conference was to address a simple
question: Just what role did non-Muslims play in the operations of the
Umayyad state? It has always been clear that the Umayyad family (r.
41–132/661–750) governed populations in the rapidly expanding empire
that were overwhelmingly composed of non-Muslims — mainly Christians,
Jews, and Zoroastrians — and the status of those non-Muslim communities
under Umayyad rule, and more broadly in early Islam, has been discussed
continuously for more than a century. The role of non-Muslims within the
Umayyad state has been, however, largely neglected. The eight papers in
this volume thus focus on non-Muslims who participated actively in the
workings of the Umayyad government.

This new Oriental Institute series — Late Antique and Medieval
Islamic Near East (LAMINE) — aims to publish a variety of scholarly
works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions,
translations, studies of corpora of documents — in short, any work that
offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between
roughly 200 and 1000 CE.

Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East 1

Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2016

ISBN 978-1-614910-31-2

Pp. x + 214, 18 figures

Paperback, 7" x 10"

$24.95

For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see:

East Anglian Archaeology is a series of reports on the archaeology of an
English region. The first report was published in 1975 and there are
now more than one hundred and eighty titles in the series. They’re
listed under Publications , grouped by period. New titles appear each year, for the most recent ones see Recent posts and for those in press see Forthcoming.

The East Anglian Archaeology website has been revamped and relaunched and now features PDF downloads of the first 100 volumes of the monograph series. Additional PDFs are due to be made available on a rolling basis.

<p>This thesis seeks to analyze the
longest story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, tale of Alcyone and Ceyx.
Despite its length, its placement within the entire work, and the
presence of the work's eponymous hero, Morpheus, the ...

<p>This dissertation is an
epigraphic study of the Roman auxiliary units raised on the Iberian
Peninsula based on a corpus of over 750 inscriptions. It presents the
literary and epigraphic evidence for late Republican ...

<p>Modern scholars cannot agree how
extant fragments of thought attributed to Leucippus and Democritus
integrate (or do not) to form a coherent perspective on the ancient
Greek world. While a certain degree of uncertainty ...

The dissertation examines Suetonius'
ideals of feminine conduct by exploring the behaviors he lauds or
censures in imperial women. The approach comes from scholarship on the
biographer's practice of evaluating of his male ...

<p>The anthology of the elder
Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 39 AD) contains quotations from approximately 120
speakers who flourished during the early Empire. The predominant
tendency in modern scholarship has been to marginalize ...

<p><p>This dissertation
investigates the prominent role of the Mouseion-Library of Alexandria in
the construction of a new community of archivist-poets during the third
century BCE in the wake of Alexander the Great's ...

<p>This dissertation focuses on the
artistic, archaeological, and literary representation and commemoration
of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various
and often contradictory ways in which the ...

<p>This dissertation examines the
interplay of ethics and poetic craft in the
<italic>Odyssey</italic> through the lens of the theme of
<italic>tisis</italic>, "retribution." In this poem
<italic>tisis</italic> serves two ...

Abstract
In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant
comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and
inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and
imperial ...

<p>This dissertation investigates
how recognition of Plato's <italic>Republic</italic> as a
pedagogical text and of the milieu of competing disciplines in which it
composed suggests new readings of its philosophical content. ...

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Rome’s enduring contribution to world civilization can, and should,
be communicated in a way that combines the hard facts, solid reasoning,
and new discoveries of university research with the excitement and
immediacy of on-location filming in Rome. If a picture is worth a
thousand words, then a video is worth a million.

Ancient Rome
Live (ARL) is an immersive journey that provides new perspectives about
the ancient city. A multi-platform learning experience, ARL first and
foremost presents original content:

a clickable map of ancient Rome

a library of videos arranged according to topic

live streaming from sites in Rome and her empire.

ARL
provides an interactive platform to engage the many layers of Rome:
monuments, people, places, and events. Ancient Rome Live is a valuable
resource for teachers- and a lot of fun for anyone interested in
history.

Later in 2015 ARL will release an ebook, app, and free
online course. WIth all of these new, coordinated formats, ARL will
change the way ancient Rome is studied.

The CMG features an
extensive collection of films and photocopies of ancient medical
manuscripts in Greek, Latin and Arabic; these materials have been
made accessible to foreign project collaborators for use in preparing
their editions.

That portion of the estate of
renowned scholars (K. Deichgräber, H. Gossen, G. Helmreich, J.
Ilberg, H. Schöne) which has come into the possession of the project
office contains preliminary work for the text editions in our series,
as well as a manuscript for an unpublished “Lexicon of Sciences for
Classical Antiquity”, in 11 folders.

The 40 folders of extensive handwritten
materials that served in the preparation of H. Diels’ catalogue,
Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, Parts I and II, Supplement 1,
Berlin 1905-1908, contain descriptions
of medical manuscripts from the collections of predominantly
European libraries.

The library of the Academy project,
which is being systemically enlarged, numbers among its holdings text
editions of ancient medical authors from the beginning of the 16th
century to the present, the corresponding secondary literature,
special works on ancient medicine, as well as general medical
histories and medical reference books.

Originally compiled in index card form,
the extensive bibliography for the history of ancient medicine has,
since 2002, also been maintained as a database.

Online Publications

Within the framework of the “Berlin
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, the
CMG is eager to make the results of the project freely available to the
scientific community and the general public.Consequently, special care should be taken
to ensure that unavailable volumes, of which often only few copies are in circulation, be made available once again
to the scientific community.To this end, the CMG has planned various
digital projects:

Online editions
Under the heading “Online editions”,
visitors will find all volumes of the CMG, CML, Suppl. and Suppl. Or. series available for
study. These volumes may be selected and browsed through, or opened to a
specified page.

Concordances
find from a reference to Kühn or Littré the corresponding page in the CMG-Edition

Manuscript Catalogue (Diels)Under this heading, visitors will find the
somewhat outdated, but still authoritative, manuscript catalogue of ancient
medical literature made at the Berlin
Academy under the
leadership of Hermann Diels in preparation for the CMG. The catalogue has been
expanded and emended numerous times. The bibliographical details of the
published Addenda and Corrigenda may also be viewed here. More precise
information regarding the manuscript tradition may be obtained from the printed
volumes, or upon inquiry at the project office.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon’s (faithless) ally, Aphrodite’s priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings (and much more). Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in 1968 that Kinnaru—the divinized temple-lyre—was venerated at Ugarit, an important Late Bronze Age city just opposite Cyprus on the Syrian coast. John Curtis Franklin seeks to harmonize Kinyras as a mythological symbol of pre-Greek Cyprus with what is known of ritual music and deified instruments in the Bronze Age Near East, using evidence going back to early Mesopotamia. Franklin addresses issues of ethnicity and identity; migration and colonization, especially the Aegean diaspora to Cyprus, Cilicia, and Philistia in the Early Iron Age; cultural interface of Hellenic, Eteocypriot, and Levantine groups on Cyprus; early Greek poetics, epic memory, and myth-making; performance traditions and music archaeology; royal ideology and ritual poetics; and a host of specific philological and historical issues arising from the collation of classical and Near Eastern sources. Kinyras includes a vital background study of divinized balang-harps in Mesopotamia by Wolfgang Heimpel as well as illustrations and artwork by Glynnis Fawkes.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.